Arrangements can only be made by local authorities; first batch of people to be quarantined arrived this morning.
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Health workers have followed up on 4,109 people, including 554 close contacts, 279 secondary contacts and 2,496 whose itineraries overlap with positive cases.
Education Bureau stresses that pandemic should not be allowed to affect students’ grades, which should be based on ‘existing achievements and formative assessments’.
Official permission to catch a cab comes with a string of Do’s and Don’ts for both drivers and passengers.
Abattoir staff split into two shifts to avoid 100% quarantine if one person contracts virus; plenty of chilled and frozen meat still available.
Health director says situation ‘very serious’; three clusters identified; 5,000 people locked down or affected by city’s Red and Yellow Zones; non-tertiary students to end academic year early.
Nearly 3,000 people under follow up; authorities inform citizens they do not need to rush to upload rapid antigen test results on Macao Health Code.
Everybody is required to self-test, while Myanmar passport-holders and anyone who lives, works or has other contact with downtown virus hotspot must undertake NAT.
Positive Covid-19 sampling locations and times from mass NATs now available; citizens with overlapping itineraries encouraged to take RATs.